Kay and I just returned from Florida the week before last. We were based in Orlando, but managed to make a few day trips, one to Ponce de Leon and St. Augustine, one to the Kennedy Space Center to see Cape Canaveral (now visible only from 2+ miles away while on a moving bus), one down the coast to Jupiter Inlet, Hillsboro, and Cape Florida (a very long day), and the last to the St. John's River lights and Amelia Island. It's that last day's trip that is relevant to some of the questions and comments above. We did try to get on the Naval base and would have been successful if we had had our car registration. They were allowing individuals who were not military or former military on the base after a complete personal and automobile search in the parking lot at the base entrance. You did have to produce a license, proof of insurance, and automobile registration (not required in Missouri so we didn't happen to have it with us), but entering the base was possible. We were repeatedly told that the St. John's Light Station could only be viewed from inside the base. We didn't let that small obstacle deter us however. We proceded on into the city of Mayport where the St. John's river light was visible from a road behind a fence (a hundred feet or so away - we couldn't get onto the property on the day we were there). We then took the ferry across to A1A on St. George Island and entered the park on the other side of the St. John's river. Great views of the St. John's (Mayport) light were available along the southeast side of the park across the river and, unknown to the park employees who also told us the Light Station was not visible, we were able to see about the top 80% of the St. John's Light Station from area 59 through about area 71 along the park road. The view may have been better without the aircraft carrier sitting in dock, but such is life. Also, regarding Amelia Island, there is a small viewing spot inside Fort Clinch park in Fernandina Beach set aside for viewing the lighthouse. You have to exit your car and walk and 50 feet through the trees to get to the open area opposite the light, but the view seems to be better than the picture shown above. Also, a little further down the road inside the park on the right side in the trees lies the remains (portions of house and brick pillar supports) for the north rear range light. It's not particularly marked from the road so you have to keep your eyes pealed. For the truly fanatic there's one more spot to see. If you go all the way down the park road to the fort and walk east from the parking lot to the beach you can then walk about 600 yards south on the beach to the original position of the old north rear range light. Currently, offshore at that point reside two wooden towers containing day range markers. At any rate that was another fairly long day. We took a day or so off in between several of these trips, but still managed to put 1000 miles on the car while in Orlando.